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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You keep saying he's a power forward despite the fact he's not a big man and doesn't in any way have a game like say Iginla that would outmuscle players along the boards and use his body to create scoring chances. He doesn't remotely play close to a power forward game IMO as he plays a similar game to a guy like Backlund with less skill and hockey sense. Colborne for example uses his body much more along the boards. Eric Lindros, Jarome Iginla, Milan Lucic, Rick Tocchet, Keith Tkachuk, are/were power forwards. Ferland is not a power forward.
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For the latter half of his career Iginla didn't even play much of a power game. Iginla was more of a "sniper" if you want to categorize him as a player. Ferland plays more of a power game than Iginla did for his last 5 years here, that's a fact as far I'm concerned.
Ferland isn't that tall but he's quite strong. You don't need to be a giant to be a power forward, Tocchet and Tkachuk aren't any bigger than Ferland.